Russian “Research Ship” Admiral Vladimirsky heading eastbound through the Dover Strait today. Previously shadowed by RN during westbound transit in March 2025.

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HMS Evadne (FY 009), a converted armed yacht commissioned as an anti-submarine vessel by the Royal Navy, seen here in HM Dockyard Gibraltar in 1945. Evadne served in the Irish Sea and Bermuda until being reallocated to the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, arriving on 12 March 1944 in Gibraltar, where she was based until hostilities ended. On 19 February 1945, she badly damaged German U-boat U-300 with depth charges.

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Italian Navy strengthens anti-submarine forces with delivery of tenth FREMM-class frigate Emilio Bianchi.

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On this day 50 years ago, the Audacious Class Carrier, HMS Eagle, was towed from HMNB Portsmouth to HMNB Devonport where she remained for 6 years to be cannibalised for spares to keep her sister, HMS Ark Royal, running.

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Ex-HMS Pembroke was formally handed over to the Romanian Navy and re-named ROS Capitan Constantin Dumitrescu at a ceremony in Rosyth yesterday. Attending the ceremony were the Romanian Chief of the Navy, VAdml Mihai Panait, RN COMOPS, Maj Gen Rich Cantrill and representatives from Babcock. (ex-HMS Blyth, renamed ROS Sublocotenent Ion Ghiculescu and also transferred to Romania in September 2023).

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